strongly supported by the Government of Zambia, and attracted funding from Ireland's then-emerging Official Development Assistance. With official encouragement and Irish aid, she helped establish the first ten maternal health clinics, and the country's first related ambulance service. Overcrowding at UTH was substantially reduced, and the project was expanded throughout the country. She was credited with a major role in setting up a network of rural clinics with trained local personnel, which dispensed natural family planning methods, and eventually raise″d awareness about the dangers of HIV/AIDS. The maternal clinics network was the result of her initiative. Exemplary influence She retired from active missionary service and returned to Cavan in 1995, where she became involved with the Cavan Bereavement Group, for which she trained as a counselor and supervisor. She was an acknowledged contributor to Ireland's first White Paper on foreign policy, and is credited with having had an important role in influencing some elements of Ireland's then-emerging overseas development aid policy. She was one of 17 contributors from the public whose written submissions were acknowledged in the policy paper, and lodged in the National Archives of Ireland. References Medical Mission Work of the Holy Rosary Sisters, an article by Sister Mary McCartan Morris, M.B., in The Capuchin Annual 1955, published in Church Street, Dublin, 1955. Challenges and Opportunities Abroad – White Paper on Foreign Policy, published by the Stationery Office for the Department of Foreign Affairs, Government of Ireland, Dublin, 1996 Obituary: "Death of, Sr. Mona Tyndall", published in Anglo-Celt (25 June 2000) 1921 births 2000 deaths Irish obstetricians Irish gynaecologists Irish Roman Catholic missionaries People from Glasnevin Female Roman Catholic missionaries Irish humanitarians Place of death missing 20th-century Irish medical doctors Roman Catholic missionaries in Zambia Roman Catholic missionaries in Nigeria Irish expatriates in Nigeria Irish expatriates in Zambia Roman Catholic medical missionaries 20th-century Irish nuns Medical doctors from Dublin (city) Alumni of University College Dublin